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Magazines and Periodicals

Every month - actually, almost every week now - fresh new inspirations to drool over! No well stocked bathroom, er, bead library is complete without a dangerously tall stack of magazines for reference, learning, inspiration and swatting flies if you are at the cottage! If you are part of the D-I-Y culture — you can teach yourself everything you need from books and magazines.

Most of the magazines contain a section of "basics" that cover the techniques referenced else where in the magazine. Each has it's own flavour. Beadwork is excellent for practical projects that you can actually finish! Bead & Button is great and has fabulous stuff, but some of the projects are a little overwhelming for the novice beader — doesn't mean you shouldn't look at them though! beads etc . . . — an Australian magazine — is beautifully illustrated — the most gorgeous photos out there. Lapidary Journal and Jewelry Arts — the granddaddy of these publications — has been around for years and is re-inventing itself again to cover more topics. You get a little of everything here. BeadSTYLE always has something you gotta try, and Art Jewelry goes beyond beads. Step by Step is what it's name suggests! Bead Unique has a little of everthing from the lampworker to the metal clay artist to the bead stitcher - I find it one of the more insightful and inspiring magazines.

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s25199 New-ish
Magazine - Beadwork Presents - 101 Bracelets, Necklaces and Earrings - Special Issue
Beadwork magazine presents 101 bracelets, necklaces, and earrings - stylish jewelry for work and play. Lots of these are uber quick and easy - so if you are a beginner, or don't like very complicated patterns, then there is lots of stuff here for you! Plus a detailed pearl-knotting how-to, and a basics recap.
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s26050 New-ish
Magazine - Bead and Button - 2010 - October
This issue features projects and techniques for using the new Miyuki TILA beads. Always great stuff, every month. Basics are covered. Projects. Informative articles. Challenging projects and expert tips and well as beginner-level.
Price: $ 7.95
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Magazine - BeadStyle - 2010 - September
Tips, projects, products. Alternate design ideas to match the project to your budget. Reader's Gallery. Table of Contents Full colour, glossy. Saddlestitched.
Price: $ 7.95
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Magazine - Art Jewelry - 2010 - September
Each month, a variety of jewelry ranging from Metal Clay to Chain Mail, to silversmithing to polymer clay. Plus, buiness advices. Saddlestitched, Glossy. Full colour.
Price: $ 7.95
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s26049 New-ish
Magazine - Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist - 2010 - September
Multiple techniques for jewelry making. From goldsmithing to stone cutting to metal clay. Wide range of techniques. Good technical articles, some very wonderful eye candy. Full colour. Saddle stitched. 8.5 x 11 inches. Always worth reading. More details
Price: $ 6.99
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Magazine - Beadwork - 2010 - August September
Big selection of scrumptious stuff. Always lots of projects, quite accessible too. A fair number of seedbead projects. Plus some tips and stuff for advanced beaders. More details here!
Price: $ 6.99
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Magazine - Art Jewelry - 2010 - July
Each month, a variety of jewelry ranging from Metal Clay to Chain Mail, to silversmithing to polymer clay. Plus, buiness advices. Saddlestitched, Glossy. Full colour.
Price: $ 7.95
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s24943
Magazine - BeadStyle - 2010 - July
All-star issue - inspired projects from top designers. Lots of ocean inspired projects. Tips, projects, products. Alternate design ideas to match the project to your budget. Reader's Gallery. Table of Contents Full colour, glossy. Saddlestitched.
Price: $ 7.95
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s25082
Magazine - Canadian Beading.ca - 2010 - No 10
Published in Canada - obviously. Full colour glossy, stock. 8.5 x 5.5 inches - slips into your purse for easy reading on the bus or at lunch. Lots of cute little projects and tips - and lots of listings for Canadian resources. Has a straight talk no-nonsense approach.
Price: $ 4.95
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s25217 New-ish
Magazine - Stringing - 2010 - Fall
Project oriented, lots of necklaces and earrings. Includes a basic technique section. Full colour, saddle stitched. Organized by colour. Gobs of projects.
Price: $ 8.99
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Magazine - Bead Unique - 2010 - Fall
Start thinking autumn colours. Crocheting, lampwork tutorials - pencil and raked aventurine. Chandelier makeover. Beading blue jeans and fashion updates. Copper cuff. Polymer clay keys. Ideas, inspiration, techniques and eye candy.
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s24799
Magazine - Easy Wire - 2010 - Summer
From the editors of Beadwork - a new magazine dedicated to wire jewelry and wiring techniques. Lots of stuff, techniques, projects tools. Step by step illustrations. Project oriented. Nothing too complicated - great for the beginner.
Price: $ 8.99
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s24361
Magazine - Bead Unique - 2010 - Summer
Another great issue - fabric fusion, chainmail Byzantine ladder, Christi Friesen polymer clay and rhinestone fish, interview with Jean Campbell - "the most important thing to do when starting out is experiment"
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s24467
Magazine - Beads - Ultimate Beader's Resource - Beads 2010 - Annual (1)
From Beadwork Magazine - Annual Buyers Guide. The editors' top picks for the year in new stuff. New beads, new trends. All new projects. Lots of ads, links, resources, calendar of the years events. Reference for the year.
Price: $ 8.99
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s24734
Magazine - Step by Step Beads - Best of ... - (2010)
Step by Step Beads magazine may be gone - consolidated with Beadwork Magazine - but here is a last blast - a Best of issue. The emphasis is on seed beads, but there are a few other ideas and projects. Very clear and detailed instructions. Apparently, Cubic RAW is the hot new stitch - 2 of the 3 magazines on my desk today use it a lot. And the third magazine is a glass working magazine. So - 100% of the beadwork magazines that I have looked at today. American magazine. Glossy, full colour. Saddlestitched.
Price: $ 14.99
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Magazine - Creative Jewelry - 2010
135 + projects. 144 pages! A bunch of articles as well - including blogging and photography.
Price: $ 14.99
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s25982 New-ish
Magazine - Australian Beading - Vol 4 - No 3
Gets bigger every month. In your face photography. Celebrity inspired jewelry. Latest trends. Birthstone. Published in Australia - obviously. Projects, articles, interviews, how-tos. Projects are all do-able and the components and beads are readily available here. Tends to be quite on-trend. Full colour glossy, heavy stock, Perfect bound.
Price: $ 9.95
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s25216 New-ish
Magazine - Creative Beading - Vol 6 - No 3
Beautifully photographed. Lots of projects. Variety of articles and interviews, Projects. Even though this is an Australian magazine - the components for the projects are available here. Nice, fresh perspective and designs. Wish they would use more photo's and diagrams in the project how-to's though. Mostly they are pretty good, though.
Price: $ 11.95
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